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Nickie Louise

Nickie is a writer, editor, and co-founder of TechStartups.com based in the Washington Metropolitan Area. She covers early-stage startups, AI, emerging technologies, cryptocurrencies, gaming, and gadgets. When she’s not writing about innovation, Nickie enjoys crafts, spending time with her family and children, hiking, and exploring God’s majestic creation.


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Revolutionary way to get funded: ICO Roundups (Infographic)
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2018


Initial coin offerings, or ICOs for short, are the latest craze in the cryptocurrency world. Despite being just a couple of years old, ICOs have managed to attract a lot of attention. It seems that in the past few months […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Thursday, October 4
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, October 4. Zunum Aero, the Boeing-backed hybrid-to-electric airplane startup and Safran team up  for hybrid electric planes. Safran, a French engine maker has struck a deal […]


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Software startup Stoplight secures $3.25 million in seed funding to accelerate the evolution of enterprise API lifecycle management
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2018


Raises $3.5 seed funding round led by Bill Wood Ventures; NextGen Venture Partners, Next Coast Ventures, Social Starts, and Capital Factory also join as investors Seed round brings total funding to date to $4.65M Enterprise API platform plans to further […]


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TAU Announces Exchange As TAU Coin Gains Momentum
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2018


San Francisco, 3 October, 2018 – TAU Coin is excited to announce the release of the TAU Exchange, scheduled for October 18, 2018. This comes at an opportune time for TAU, as the new Proof-of-Transaction (PoT) coin has begun to […]


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Tokenized securities made available for retail investors
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2018


Interview with Desico Co-Founder and CEO Laimonas Noreika Interest for tokenized securities has been growing lately as people begin to realize the potential held on the blockchain. As has been commonly mentioned throughout the public, traditional securities markets have many […]


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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange invests $2.5 million in Australian startup TravelbyBit
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2018


We’ve covered TravelByBit many times. Back in January, we wrote about how Queensland, Australia-based blockchain startup helped Brisbane Airport to start accepting payments in cryptocurrencies. In August of this year, we reported when TravelbyBit received $100,000 from Australian Government to boost […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, October 3
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, October 3. Agritech startup Iron Ox created the first farm in America run entirely by robots. Agritech startup Iron Ox has created the first fully […]


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Round Up for Top 4 Live Trivia Game Show Apps on Android
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2018


If you look through your phone now, there’s a decent odd that you’ll find some apps that you rarely use, they occupy space, and some of them could surreptitiously be mining your data even without your knowledge. However, in the […]


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Google acqui-hires customer service automation startup Onward
Nickie Louise Posted On October 2, 2018


The tech giant, Google, has acquired customer service automation toolmaker Onward as a partial acqui-hire. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. As part of the acquisition, startup’s co-founders Rémi Cossart and Pramod Thammaiah and CTO Aaron Podolny will join […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, October 2
Nickie Louise Posted On October 2, 2018


Good afternoon! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, October 2. Jellyfish acquires The ASO Co to bolster mobile app services. Jellyfish, the UK marketing agency, has acquired App Store optimization startup, The ASO Co. […]


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Agritech startup PivotBio raises $70 million to deliver nitrogen-producing microbes and drastically cut greenhouse-gas emissions from farming
Nickie Louise Posted On October 2, 2018


Pivot Bio, a pioneer game-changing advances in crop nutrition using microbes,  today announced it has raised $70 million in a new Series B funding round to deliver first and only clean alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizer for U.S. corn farmers. The […]


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12 disruptive health tech startups selected to join Plug and Play Cleveland Innovation Platform
Nickie Louise Posted On October 2, 2018


We’ve written frequently about Plug and Play over the past year. Back in March, the world’s largest startup accelerator Plug and Play accepted 111 Startups into six of its accelerator programs. Yesterday, Plug and Play Cleveland, the global innovation platform matching […]


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Autonomous driving startup Roadstar.ai selects Renovo AWare as OS for its development and commercialization platform
Nickie Louise Posted On October 1, 2018


Roadstar.ai, a startup that empowers cars and trucks with artificial intelligence, so as to make transportation safer and more efficient, announced today it has selected AWare, Renovo’s production-grade OS for automated mobility, for its full stack automated driving system. With this […]


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Fintech startup DrumG raises $6.5mm Series A to build next generation enterprise blockchain-based business networks for global financial services
Nickie Louise Posted On October 1, 2018


DrumG Technologies (DrumG), a fintech startup focused on building and operating next generation enterprise distributed ledger-based applications for the regulated global financial services industry, has raised $6.5-million Series A minority investment to build next generation enterprise blockchain-based business networks for global financial […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Monday, October 1
Nickie Louise Posted On October 1, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, October 1. U.K. startup Applied Fusion Systems (AFS) plans fusion-powered missions to the stars. Applied Fusion Systems is a Oxford, England-based nuclear startup that started […]


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Jeff Bezos’ space startup Blue Origin to supply advanced booster engines for Boeing-Lockheed Rocket Venture
Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2018


Blue Origin, the aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company owned by Jeff Bezos, has been selected to supply its advanced booster engine for Vulcan Centaur Rocket System, a United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) next-generation rocket. ULA is a joint venture between […]


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Facebook Hacked: Facebook security breach allowed hackers to control the accounts of up to 50 million users
Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2018


Facebook has discovered a security issue where hackers were able to access information that could have let them take over as many as 50 million accounts, the social giant company said in a blog post on Friday. Facebook said its […]


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IoT startup Guardhat raises $20 million in Series A to bring life saving technology to global industrial workforce
Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2018


Guardhat, the world’s leading Internet of Things (IoT) industrial safety technology developer specialized in developing wearables, infrastructure and software platforms to provide a safer and more productive work environment, has secured a $20 million ‘Series A’ funding to accelerate growth and […]


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Hacker Showdown: Hacker claims to live-stream deleting Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page on Sunday
Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2018


A Taiwanese “white hat” hacker, Chang Chi-yuan, claims he’ll broadcast himself hacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page on Sunday, according to a report from Bloomberg. Writing in a Facebook post to his 26,000 followers, Chang Chi-yuan promised to delete the Facebook founder’s […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Friday, September 28
Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, September 28. China’s news-aggregation app Bytedance is seeking to raise $3 billion from SoftBank at $75 billion valuation. Bytedance, the owner of China’s most popular news-aggregation […]


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